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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
To Prosecute Arensdnrf

DEs MONIES, Ia, June q The Iowa
State Temperance Alliance has issued a
circular to the clergymen of the State, re-
gardless of UNCONVENTIONAL lines, announc-
ing that at the solicitation of many ear
nest friends of prohibition the al
lance has consented to be the me-
dunn for the collection for the need
ed aid in the prosecution IN the Had
dock cases. The alliance is possessed of
authentic information that the prosecu-
ton was hampereL for funds all through
the Arensdorf trial The circular also de.
clares that the responsibility of the sue
cess or failure of the prosecution largely
depends upon the efforts of the
temperance and Christian men and
women Of all denominations.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
-& . -
a CLOUD-BURST.
Great Damage Results in Ohio from q
Terrific Storm.

Great damage Results in OhiO from q
Terrific Storm.
CLEVELAND, O., June 7.-During the
thunderstorm Sunday cloud burst over
the village of Grafton, O., flooding the
streets in a few minutes. The culvert of the
Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling railroad
was soon washed out the abutments being
carried into field. A chasm sixty feet
wide was made. At Oil Creek near Bel.
den, two miles from Grafton, bridge
was washed out just as a freight train
was crossing. The engine and a few
cars crossed in safety, but seven
teen cars went down with the wreck.
Two miles east on the Cleveland, Column
tus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis road is a
washout of thirty feet Wagon bridges
were washed away in many places. Gel
lars were flle1 with water and much dam
age was done. The loss by the storm will
be several thousand dollars.
CINCINNATI, June 7-Nearly all the town
bridges were carried away by the Oberln
food Sunday, and the water rose several
feet above the floors on Professor, Mill
Main and Pleasant streets. DR.. Bunce's Office
was foatei away several feet The gas
works were deluged. Gilchrist's lumber
yard and planning mill were much damaged.
The front of the carriage works was block
AIDED with logs from Swift's undergrad.
About fifty houses were flooded. AtZanes-
vile, o., Lightning struck the Black D. "a
mond Manufacturing Company's works
and the establishment burned. Loss, 800
BOO; insurance about $1,000 Lightning
was unusually destructive at various
points throughout the State.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

The survivors of the Greedy expedi-
ton are now six in number General
Greedy is Chief of the Signal Service;
David l.. Brainard is Second Lieuten-
ant of Cavalry at Fort Walla Walla;
Julius r. Frederick is sick and crippled
at his home in Indianapolis; Henry
Biederbeck is messenger in the Agri-
cultural Bureau at Washington; Maui
rice Cornell is n private in the Signal
Corps at San Francisco, and Francis
Larg is a sergeant in the Signal Corps
nj New York.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

LORD DUFFERIN and his suite had q
narrow escape recently at Dohra Doom,
IN India. A swarm of irate bees ran
muck among the escort and attendants
aud routed them horse and foot. Horses
bolted, vehicles were smashed, ladies
and children shrieked, and one poor
charger belonging to an officer was so
badly stung that it lay down, and a
"smudge" fire had to be lighted round
1t before the bees were driven of. The
Viceroy and suite had just passed into
the church, in order to attend
service, before the insects made their
attack
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
Oberlin, o., Flooded by a Creek-SI5. 900

OBERLIN, O., June 6.-During thunder
storm which swept over the northern part
of the State yesterday afternoon much
damage was done here by cloud-burst
or water spout. When the storm was at it's
height an immense volume of waite
came down suddenly, swelling to raging
torrent the little creek which flows through
the town. The stream rose several feet
within few minutes, flooding streets, fill
ing cellars, and IN many cases driving peo-
pie to the upper stories of their dwellings.
The food subsidized almost as quickly
as it came. 1t is impossible to tell
now the exact amount of damage, but it
will probably be $4,000 to $50, 00l.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
Prize Winners Challennad

TOLEDO, O., June 2.-Spitze- & Co.. a
leading banking firm in this cry, has IS.
sued challenge to the Lomax rifles, the
winners Of the prize drill at Washington.
to drlll against the To. edo Cadets of this
city for 5000. The challenge specifies
that the drill shall take place on or before
august |, 1887, in either Chicago or Gin.
clnnati, but preferred the former CITY.
The challenge is to remain open until
June Il
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10


NeighbOrs by Killing Four Persons and
Committing Shicide-A shocking Trage-
dy in Kentucky.
HUBoN, D. t., June 7.-Troubie over o
land claim at Lake Byron, about eight
miles north of here, resulted yesterday
morning in Samuel Nelson killing three
persons, wounding a fourth and then
blowing his own brains cut. Nelson
and Mrs. Shaw had contested one
of the Cameron claims, both parties
living on the ground, their houses
being about forty rods apart The legal
contest had been decided in Mrs. Shaw's
favor, but Nelson refused to vacate. Yes
terday morning Mrs. Shaw, her son Cor
WIN, her brother, G. c. Llmau, her sister,
Miss Liman, and man named Kelsey went
out to a field to work, when Nelson came
out from his house with Winchester rife,
and, without word, took aim and
fired at Liman. He missed, but at once
turned his weapon on Corwin Shaw, who
was running away. The young man was
shot drought the heart and dropped dead.
Kelsey was then shot down, the bullet pass
ing through his body. Mrs. Shaw and her
sister were by this time on their knees pray
ing that the murderer spare their lives.
Their appeals were unheari, and In a few
minutes both were lying dead, shot through
the head. The murderer then drew aknIfe
and cut terrible cash in Miss Liman's
breast. Going back to his house he put
the gun to his left temple and blew bis
head to pieces. Kelsey died last evening.
CINCINNATI, June 1.-THE details of a
quadruple tragedy were received here
from Maysville, KY, yesterday morn
ing. Saturday evening John II.
Fields, a famer living near Mill
wood, enraged at the alleged improper
conduct of his wife with a neighbour fired
at her through window with double
barre1ed shotgun. The shot shattered
the glass and struck the unfortunate
woman in the breast inficting a
necessarily fatal wound. Two sons who
were sitting on the porch were startled
by the report of the weapon, and rushed
to the scene and seized their Infatuated
father as he was preparing to fire again at
his wife, who lay grooming upon the floor.
After desperate struggle the mailman
escaped, and, taking aim at his two
boys, fired The shot struck both in
vital parts. Fields was captured and
locked up. During the night he managed
to elude attention and escaped Dillgent
search was made for him, and finally his
dead body was found in the stable. He had
cut his throat from ear to ear and bled to
death.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

GEORGE ELIOT was thirty-eight years
of age when her first story was pub
lished; Mrs. Stowe was thirty-nine
when Uncle TOMS Cabin" appeared;
Mrs Browning wrote her best poetry
after her marriage at thirty-seven;
Helen Hunt jackson won her fame
after she was forty, and Louisa M.
Aleott's first good story was published
WHOM she was thirtv-sevnn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

The first woman ever elected mayor
of an American city has entered upon
the duties of her office at Arigonia,
Kan. She is married and has four
children. Her husband will enjoy the
luxury of managing affairs at home
during her term of Office.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

A SOUTHERN girl, who has been a
clerk in the Treasury Department at
Washington, has sold for 100000 a
farm of one hundred acres near Biz
mingham, Ala, for which her mother
had often tried to obtain q few hun
dred dollars. Coal has been discovered
on the land.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

The Oxford On. W Times prints
the names of twenty-four persons who
have died in Chenango County since
1917 at the age of one hundred years
and upward. The oldest was Dale
Villemain, aged one hundred and
twelve Vears
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

A REPORT comes from Dresden, Sax
ony, of steam omnibus, which is in
tended to run regularly over the coun-
try roads. 1t is managed by two men
and carries forty-six passengers, with
considerable freight.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

DIR. Macy PUTNAM jacob, New
York physician, is estimated to have
an income of $4,000 year, which is
probably as large as is enjoyed by any
physician of the other sex.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

THE three hundred young women of
Wellesley College do the homework of
the college on the cooperative plan.
1t takes each one OF them forty min
utes a day to do her share.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

The Paris Project of Police has is
sued an order forbidding newspaper
vendors to cry any thing but the name
OF the journal they offer for sale.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

IT is fact worth noting that no
comet, so far as is known, has ever
come in contact with the earth, or
mingled its substance with the earth's
atmosphere. The nearest approach ever
observed was LoXell's comet of 1870,
which approached to within 1,400, 900
miles of the earth, and subtended an
angle of deg. % min, the largest APP
parent diameter yet observed in any
comet 1t has not been seen since
l77O, though an orbit wa computed
for it of only five years, and astrono-
mers think perturbation by Jupiter
may have heightened its orbit
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
Great Reception to Gladstone.

LONDON, June 6.-Gladstone was ten
dered monster reception at Swansea,
Wales, Saturday, at which over 100. 900
Welshmen were in line. The procession
was FIVE hours IN passing the review
stand. In a speech he said he was ready
to accept any effective measure for homo
rule, subject to the supremacy of Parlia-
ment, the unity of the empire and the
wishes of the Irish
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

Fort WORTH, Tex. June 6-Four masked
robbers captured Texas & Pacific ex-
press train Saturday night near here and
rifed the express car. About 5000 is sup
posed to have been stolen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
Convict Immigrants.

WAsH1tGToN, June 1.-THE commercial
agent at New Caledonia, South Pacific
Ocean, has reported to the Department OF
State that convicts in that colony are be-
ing liberated with the understanding that
they must not settle in any English or
French colony, and as a consequence
the majority of them are going
to San Francisco. He says that a
proposition is now before the local
parliament to vote 81, 900 for landing in
San Francisco all the worst of these men,
as they will not be received in Tahiti or
elsewhere
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
Evidence Confirming the Wreck of a
Steamer in the Indian CYCLONE.

CALCUTTA, June lit has been proved
beyond a doubt by the picking up of the
captains chest that the steamer Sir
John Lawrence was lost in the recent
cyclone off this coast. The steamer car
ried 40 passengers and it is believed
they were all lost. Most of the passengers
were native ladies on their way to Jugger-
Baut to celebrate the juggernaut festival
The catastrophe has cast feeling Of gloom
over the Hindoo community here, and all
the best families are in mourning for rela-
tiyes or friends who were among the pas
spuOerS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

LORD LANsDOwNE's estate in Coun-
ty Kerry, Ireland, has about ninety
five thousand acres.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

THERE is now IN possession of the
English War Office an Austrian re-
peatTng rifle which is said to be capable
OF firing eighty shots a minute.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

EDGAR L. WAKEMAN says he can
give the names and addresses of one
thousand gypsies whose combined
wealth will exceed $40 900. 900.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

OFFICIAL notice is gwen that the
Welland canal is now ready for vessels
drawing fourteen feet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

TIE first baby born in South Sioux
City Neb', was given serenade by
the band and presented with corner
lot in that promising town.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

A SAN FRANCISCAN recently ate five
dozen hard-boiled eggs in two hours,
and still lives.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
Fatal Result of a Lamn Fxn,os,o,

OsWEGo n. Y, June "A lamp explo.
sion set fire to small house occupied by a
Mrs O'Brien and her four children, Two
OF them were burned to death.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

THE widow of the late Henry Ward
Beecher has taken up her residence
with her daughter at Stamford, Conn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
Three Per Cents. Outstanding.

WASHINGTON, June About S17, O)0, 900
of the called three per cent. bonds still
outs landing are held by National banks as
security for circulation. Comptroller
Trenholm believes these will all he re-
placed by other bonds by September l.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
WILLIAM A. WHEELER.
The Ex-Viee-President Passes Away at
His Residence in Malone, N. 1.-Brief
Sketch of His Career.

MALONE, n. Y, June 6.-Ex-Vice-P res-
dent Wheeler died here Saturday morning
few minutes after ten o'clock His death
was painless. Although his Vitality had
been decreasing slowly for the past six
years, the deceased was in comparatively
good health up to within the past six
months. He suffered much from in,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

GEORGIA people pay a tax of ten
cents head on their cats.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

THERE is a funny little old man in
Essex, Mass, says the Boston Tran-
script who is always eating. Three
meals day are only an aggravation to
his appetite. He will rise at two
o'clock in the morning and eat slice
OF meat, some eggs, several pieces Of
bread, cut of ham and, perhaps, few
potatoes At seven o'clock he eats a
hearty breakfast. At nine he has an
other About ten he begins to grow
hungry again. And so, like an aveng-
ing Nemesis, hunger chases him day
and night. He is always craving food,
yet physicians say he is perfectly well.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

ACCORDING to the report of the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washing
ton this country leads all others as a
wheat-producing territory, the average
growth of wheat being about eight
bushels per capita, or 457,000,000 last
year. France comes next both with
reference to the number of bushels
and the proportion per capita. Its
wheat crop last year was 299, 107, $40
bushels. India stood next with 1885,
Sl7,632 bushels, and Russia fourth with
213,907 0S4, There is no reason why
this country should not maintain its
great lead for centuries to come.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
yellow Fever at Key West.

WASHINGTON, June THE reports Of
yellow feyeEat Key West arc OF a more
alarming character The Treasury De-
partment has dispatches announcing
seventeen new cases, and saying that the
fever has broken out in the jail and hotel,
and has been declared epidemic. The
marine hospital service will provide adii-
tional quarantine and other precautions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10

The investigation of affairs of the insane
asylum at Yankton, D. T., disclosed a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
BLOODY WORK.

A Dakota Farmer Ends Dispute with
Neighbors by Killing Four Persons and
Committing Shicide=-A Shocking Trage-
dy in Kentucky,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-03

!; two pieces of board. They have no
food, but will speedily obtain assistance
! from the Relief society.
{ At 753 Rice street lives August Ny
quist, his wife and four children, rang
+ ing in age from three to thirteen years.
/ The wife is very sick, and he himself
) should be in bed because of infirmitieS
of long duration. These children are
unusually bright and interesting and
look not like children used to suffering
and hunger.
At II East side of Phalen creek An
drew Johnson resides. Not the johnson
described above, but deserving man,
who, although he has been sick
FOR OVER FOUR YEARS,
tries to do what he can to relieve his
family distress. 1t was hard burden.
however, and he was forced to appeal to
the society finally. They suffer most
from cold and want of bed clothes.
In the GLOBE of yesterday the case of
cruelty, that OF little Mary Trossman,
was fully described. BY this means she
was found and turned over to Mr..
again, though he left strict injunctiOnS
with the father and son to harm her no
more. Mr.. HutchinS is making out the
papers to send her to the House of the
Good Shepherd. If she were allowed to
run at large much longer she would be
ruined in reputation, character, and
every other admirable trait that may be
fully developed and strengthened at this
home
The GLOBE has increased my work."
said Secretary Hall, when Mr.. II. and
the reporter returned. Il am sorry to
see you work SO hard, Mr.. Hail."
''Oh, the more it increases my work
that that way way the happier ! am" said the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-03
GLOBULES.
Yesterday, S6S7.134.

Bank clearanceS yesterday, S6oT, l34.
The council committee on claims will meet
at the city hall this afternoon.
Eight births. one death and one marriage
were bulletiued at the health Office yester-
day.
The bills for the reception of President
Cleveland will be paid by City Treasurer Refs
this afternoon. The total cost of the reeep-
ton was about $1,000.
The Columbia Snow Shoe club will meet at
the Merchants at 7:30 sharp this evening for
their regular weekly run. An old time snow
shOer who came in from the country yester
day, saws he never saw the snow in better
condi ion for tramp.
There will be a sale of useful and fancy
articles and Christmas cards at Unity Church
club room. on Wabasha street, foot of Sum-
init avenue, on Friday, Dec. 9, from 10 a. N.
to 10 p. m. Refreshments will be served dur
ing the afternoon and evening.
Supt Kiehle reports that the whole num-
Der of scholars in the state entitled to ap-
80, 35l enrolled in winter and 175, S95 en-
rolled in summer; average daily attendance,
121, S33 average length of school in months,
so.
At the House of Hope Presbyterian church.
corner West Fifth and Exchange streets, Rev.
Robert Christie, the pastor, Will conduct
services at 1880 q. m, and 1880 p. m. Sun
day school at 1913 p. m; Young Peoples
Society of Christian Endeavor meets in the
church parlors at $50 p. In.
One evening next week J. H. Gregory will
give reading at the House of Hope Presby-
terrain church, the proceeds to be devoted TO
the cause of foreign missions. Mr.. Gregory
from his connection with the New York Life
Insurance company. He has no little ability
as an elocutionist and orator, for an amateur,
and will entertain all who may go to him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-03
A POET AMONGST Us.
a Company at the Ryan With
Selections From His Works.

A tall, spare-built man, attired in dark
clothing, a Prince Albert coat buttoned
close across his chest, and the end of a
looSely-tied white silk scarf protruding
from an opening at the throat, was the
center of group of the leading society
people of st. Paul, ladies being In the
majority. in the parlOr of the Ryan hotel
Yesterday. A mOustache and gOatee
tinged with grey adorned his face, and
his irOn-grey hair brushed back from his
forehead and behind his ears completed
the perSO nal description of the poet
Brewer MattOcks, of Faribault. For
some time past it has been known in the
upper circles of st. Paul that they were
to be treated with serious of readings
of his own compositions by one who
in years gone by had occupied prOmi-
nent position in this city, where his
father had been clergyman. COnSe-
uuently when a few minues after
4 o'clock Judge Flandrau arose
for the purpose Of introducing Mr.. Mat
tocks not chair was vacant and the
rush of silks and Satins and the sparkle
of pure gems in the ears and at the
Threats of the wearers eyinced the class
of people that had been attracted to the
monolOgue entertainment. 1t was a
critical audience, too, and for time the
efforts of their entertainer were received
coldly, but as he progressed thaw got
in and up to the last moment he had no
cause to complain that his reading was
unapprecated. The selections covered
a wide range OF topics and before read
ing them the poet enlightened those
present with the circumstances under
which they had been composed and in
some cases he said that
TEN YEARS HAD ELAPSED
before certain ideas had been trans
ferred to paper. While there were no
particularly soaring flights of oratory at
tempted the reader showed great feeling
in delivering his lines and was very i'm
preSsiye in the pathetic portions. His
poems had the merit of depicting every
day life in pleasant manner, and the
audience entered fully into the spirit of
the entertainment and refrained from
interrupting with their p1auditS until
the exit bow was made.
Only an hour was consumed in the
entertainment, but no one seemed to be
tired when the end was reached, and
several ladies were heard to express re-
grets that there was not more on the
programme.
Brewer Mattocks, who gave the en-
tertainment yesterday afternoon, is not
a stranger in these parts, although for
a decade he has resided in another part
of the state. Several years ago he was
health officer of st. Paul. and during his
incumbency of that office he wrote
charming little play called Dorothy"
for the daughters of Col. Banning,
which they produced in private theatri
Gals. There was mystery attending
the authorship of the play, which is said
to have been well conceived and meri-
torious production, and it was generally
believed that it was the handiwork of all
Eastern playwright. Not until year or
so ago was it definitely ascertained that
the writer was Brewer Mattocks, who
had deserted st. Paul suddenly on ac-
count Of some official diSnute